2 feet of water in about 60 hours is not survivable for any USA infrastructure. This was not a thousand year flood, it was a storm who's physics were never anticipated. This was not a hurricane. It defies any such definition.
Joaquin is a climate crisis storm. No different than twin tornadoes or mountains melting in Colorado or red clay gone with rain where it never was before. Joaquin is a very different kind of storm. It can and will happen again.
October 12, 2015
By Colleen Jenkins
...South Carolina (click here) is reeling from a widespread storm that dumped as many as 2 feet (61 cm) or more of rain in parts of the state this month, killing 19 people in drownings or weather-related traffic crashes and inundating hundreds of homes.
"We are going from a massive response situation to a massive recovery situation," Governor Nikki Haley told a news conference. "This is not going to take us years to come out of this."
About 350,000 people remain under boiled-water notices, Haley said. The flooding caused 27 dam breaches, she said, as well as other problems for local water systems.
More than 300 state-maintained roads and bridges remained shuttered on Monday, according to the state's transportation agency....
Joaquin is a climate crisis storm. No different than twin tornadoes or mountains melting in Colorado or red clay gone with rain where it never was before. Joaquin is a very different kind of storm. It can and will happen again.
October 12, 2015
By Colleen Jenkins
...South Carolina (click here) is reeling from a widespread storm that dumped as many as 2 feet (61 cm) or more of rain in parts of the state this month, killing 19 people in drownings or weather-related traffic crashes and inundating hundreds of homes.
"We are going from a massive response situation to a massive recovery situation," Governor Nikki Haley told a news conference. "This is not going to take us years to come out of this."
About 350,000 people remain under boiled-water notices, Haley said. The flooding caused 27 dam breaches, she said, as well as other problems for local water systems.
More than 300 state-maintained roads and bridges remained shuttered on Monday, according to the state's transportation agency....
